Enoch- The Man Who Walked With God Series

4. A Satisfying Life

You do not keep walking with someone who brings you dissatisfaction. The hymnal puts it,

When we walk with the Lord / In the light of His Word /

What a glory He sheds on our way / While we do His good will,

He abides with us still / And with all who will trust and obey

This shows the power of relationship is far superior to the power of religion. Enoch and God walked together for 300 years. This longevity was the result of love. The whole picture here is that of two very dear friends - Enoch and God walking together. One thing that strikes me is Enoch’s walk is so uneventful, so lacking in glamour, so routine. We do not read that he charged any hill like Joshua, or brought any king to his knees like Moses, or brought fire down from heaven like Elijah, or had a ship destroyed beneath him like Paul, or died a martyr’s death like Stephen. All he did was walk with God.

Enoch never grew bored or tired of walking and the reason was he walked with GOD. You will get bored to death saying your prayers and having a daily prayer time. But when prayer becomes for you a laying hold of the person and presence and power of God, then it will become an adventure. You will get bored to death doing your daily Bible readings. But when the Book comes alive and God speaks to you from its pages, then Bible study will never grow old. You will get bored to death with the dull routine of going to church, but, if you ever start entering the house of God and experiencing the presence of God in worship, you will hunger for the house of God.

II . ENOCH’S WELCOME.

In the Bible’s first miracle God took Enoch to heaven without dying. He did it again years later for Elijah and He will do for all Christians at the return of Christ (I Cor. 15:51; I Thess. 4:15-17). God did this to show us WHAT LIFE IS. Life is measured by its donation not by its duration. At the tender age of 365 years God called Enoch home to heaven. I say "tender” because he was the youngest man in this chapter to die. In this age before the flood when men lived almost a thousand years, Enoch’s death was like that of a thirty year old man today. Enoch lived so close to God and did his work so well that his “day’s work was done at noon” (Spurgeon).

I can hear God saying, "Come on home, Enoch. There is no need for you to be out of heaven any longer; you have borne your testimony, you have lived for me; throughout the ages men will look to you as a model of true godliness and therefore you can come on home.” Over a hundred people died in last month’s plane disaster, but one little three year old girl survived because her mother shielded her little body from the flames with her own body. That’s what life is – DONATION; not DURATION. It is not how many years we put in; but how much we put into the years we do have.

It also shows WHAT DEATH IS. In another disaster last month a church bus is swept away in a Texas flood. The children climbed trees, got on top of the bus, and held on for dear life. A helicopter dropped a rope to a 12 year old girl. On the way up her little grip fails and she starts to slip. Before she plunges to her death, she calls out to her friends in the nearby tree, "I will see you in heaven. Tell my mama and daddy I love them.” That precious child had hope and her mama and daddy have hope, that one day, at death or the return of Jesus their family will be reunited. He will say to each of His people, Come home my child! Come home my friend! We who walk with God are not swallowed up by the ground we are taken up.